Neglecting Pacing Can Lead to Reader Fatigue – On the RMFW Blog

Have you read novels lately that pound the stuffing out of the protagonist with no relief in sight, to the point where you think “Oh, come on, just kill the poor guy already—I’m bored”? I have. That’s called reader fatigue, and it can happen when the author keeps piling on bad plot points without any sense of timing, pacing, or relief. I talk more about this idea on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog. Click here to read more: “Reader Fatigue: Is Pacing in Novels a Lost Art?”